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… is screening at ASU West on Saturday. Kuchar has been an underground filmmaker for nearly 40 years from his perch at the SF Art Institute; It Came From Kuchar is a profile of the director and his twin brother, a sometime collaborator, by director Jennifer Kroot.

Here’s a bit of Variety’s review of it:

“It Came From Kuchar” gleefully piles on everything anyone could want in a docu on the fabulous Kuchar brothers, whose deliriously campy zero-budget mellers — with titles like “Hold Me While I’m Naked” or “Sins of the Fleshapoids” — enlivened many otherwise somber evenings of ‘60s underground cinema. Critics and aficionados seek to distill the essence of the twins’ work, while clips from the films in question unspool in a fever dream of compelling non sequiturs. Meanwhile, George and Mike Kuchar themselves hold forth unstoppably. A must-see for filmmakers of all persuasions …

(A “meller” is a melodrama in Varietyspeak.)

No Festival Required, the local independent film group, has Kuchar himself on hand after, to screen some of his work and answer questions.

And it’s free!

The “George Kuchar Film Symposium” is on Saturday February 6, 2010, at 5 p.m. in the Kiva Lecture Room of the Sands Building at ASU West.

ASU West is south of Thunderbird and west of 43rd Ave. A campus map is here. The Sands building is in the middle of the campus.

Details from NFR here.